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<\/a>GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Due to an overlap<\/strong><\/a> of GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> Mesoscale Domain Sectors<\/strong><\/a>, images were available at 30-second intervals — and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of thunderstorms over southeastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho and northern Nevada on 29 May 2019<\/strong><\/a>. Some of these thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall and small hail in southwestern Idaho, and a cold air funnel was spotted in northern Nevada (local storm reports<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n A comparison of Visible images from GOES-17 and GOES-15 images (below)<\/strong><\/em> helps to underscore some of the improvements in the GOES-R<\/strong><\/a> series of satellites over their predecessors — with images every 30 seconds compared to every 4-15 minutes (with gaps of 30 minutes during the Full Disk scans every 3 hours), the short-term convective trends could be better monitored using GOES-17. Also note that the GOES-15 Visible images do not appear as bright as those from GOES-17 \u2014 prior to the GOES-R Series of satellites, the performance of visible detectors degraded over time, leading to imagery that appeared more dim as the Imager<\/strong><\/a> instrument aged. Visible detectors on the new ABI<\/strong><\/a> instrument benefit from on-orbit calibration to remedy this type of degradation.<\/p>\n
![\"GOES-17](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/G17_G15_VIS_OR_ID_NV_29MAY2019_2019149_205927_GOES-15_0002PANELS.GIF\")
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